and then your being looked at for it. imagine, your shaken in the dead of night. my ears were ringing. i thought i was dreaming. in bed, right next to you. your husband, murdered. hearty wrap around your head, is it? yes. and here s the twist. you are the suspect. it s the worst feeling, thinking you re gonna be blamed for your husband s death. could she have been the killer? or, with someone keeping a secret? he said, what did you do. what did you do? i don t know what to tell you. just of the truth. hello, and welcome to dateline . it s the stuff of nightmares. and a traitor creeps into your bedroom in the middle of the night and opens fire. but for melissa oxley, the bad dream was all too real. she told investigators she d been startled from her sleep to find her husband, ben, dead from a gunshot blast. it seems streams, they thought, that no one else in the house was hurt. including melissa, who was sleeping by his side. stranger still, was
love is dead. and then your being looked at for it. imagine, your shaken in the dead of night. my ears were ringing. i thought i was dreaming. in bed, right next to you. your husband, murdered. hearty wrap around your head, is it? yes. and here s the twist. you are the suspect. it s the worst feeling, thinking you re gonna be blamed for your husband s death. could she have been the killer? or, with someone keeping a secret? i said, what did you do. what did you do? i don t know what to tell you. just of the truth. hello, and welcome to dateline . it s the stuff of nightmares. and a traitor creeps into your bedroom in the middle of the night and opens fire. but for melissa oxley, the bad dream was all too real. she told investigators she d been startled from her sleep to find her husband, ben, dead from a gunshot blast. it seems strange, they thought, that no one else in the house was hurt. including melissa, who was sleeping by his side. stranger stil
you want to talk about this case? you know, i do. it was now the fall of 2009. dawn was in jail for a dui. and agreed to talk before for detail on the night of ben oxley s murder. he said, do you want me to go do that? i m sitting there going, are you serious? are you kidding me? all i know is he was on the phone. he was asking me if i wanted him to go take care of ben. and i was saying no. and then she went to sleep, she said. the next thing she knew, james was back. he woke me up and he said, it s done. and i was totally drunk. and then they turn around and i waking up out of a dead sleep and i m like, what are you talking about? he said, the cops are going to be here. seriously, right now you re telling me the cops are going to show up at my house because my ex-husband is dead? and she did not take part, she swore. not at all. i didn t drive. i didn t. i did not go anywhere i. did not plan this. i did not want ben dead. so, truth or fiction?
not even close. the truth had been hiding, but it was itching to come out. young devin. remember him? dawn s sun? he finally decided to reveal what he overheard the night of the murder. my mom was like, i want them to die. i just want him dead. yadda yadda. and then jjames said, i would go kill him right now. you just say the word, i ll go kill him. she was like a broken record. i want him dead. i want him dead. sound like a woman who was shocked the murder happened? but there was more. it was after that when james matlean told his attorney it was time to tell the whole story. i could tell he was telling the truth. over the course of 15 months, i was told the same story. so now comes another story. james is story. not a love story this time. nobody could believe it that i did what i did. i ve never been a violent person.
dated ben s ex-wife, dawn and apparently threatened to kill both don dawn and any man she was with. was the story to? just be safe, detective elges sent officers to dawn s house where they walker up. sleeping, but unharmed. and discovered that the man in question was hundreds of miles away from the when the murder happened. so, again, the questions were formed for melissa. sometimes people knew more than they want to tell our share. i m telling you, i honestly don t know. alyssa was six by this time. the only person who remembered seeing anything unusual. she told the detective right away. well, i was just fast asleep, but i woke up and heard this creek after i saw somebody walking in. and then i just, went back. you know who they were? . i don t know who it was. she saw a shadow in her doorway looking at her. and then the shadow left. she went back to sleep and then